MISS JENNY'S FORLORN ADVENT 



after the first bath, but this time she 

 preened herself a little, and in a few days 

 she was as anxious as Chupes for the morn- 

 ing plunge, and almost as particular as he 

 about the arrangement of her feathers. 



The oiling and smoothing soon made her 

 look like another bird, and when we had 

 cut off some of her most tattered feathers 

 and a new lot had come in around her bill, 

 we could hardly recognize her as the mis- 

 erable little creature that had come to us 

 that autumn afternoon. Owing to the 

 cramping and stunting of her early days, 

 her tail feathers were always crooked when 

 they first appeared, but by dint of faithful 

 smoothing she always corrected this blem- 

 ish. 



Of course with regard to Chupes* age we 

 could only t>e a few days astray at the ut- 

 most; tut there was much uncertainty 

 about Jenny's. Had s'fie been a horse or a 

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